Donate

When you make a financial donation in the amount of your choosing, you receive a tax receipt for the full amount.

A planned gift is a donation that is arranged in the present and allocated at a future date. While planned gifts are commonly donated through a will or trust, they can also be made during a donor’s lifetime. By leaving a planned a gift to the BCM&CC as part of your legacy, you are helping to ensure that future generations can explore and connect to the past, present and future.

In 2019 the Museum opened an Endowment Fund with Community Foundation Grey Bruce (CFGB). An Endowment Fund is a natural place to designate memorial gifts or bequests, or for making donations that you want to have a long-lasting impact. An Endowment Fund is a permanent, self-sustaining source of invested monies that generates perpetual and reliable revenue annually to help support vital aspects of the Museum’s work. By contributing to the Museum Endowment Fund, you are helping future generations to share your love of arts & cultural in perpetuity.

Through the years, generous donors have given the Bruce County Museum & Cultural Centre its rich and varied collection of objects, photographs and documents.
Often these donations contain both artefacts and archival material. This is a wonderful way to share our history; for example, by having a dress on display with a photograph of the original owner wearing it and their story of the special occasion.  Our collection focuses on the vibrant history of Bruce County.  

The Collection is housed in state-of-the-art storage areas and displayed in our 12,000 sq ft of exhibit spaces.  

You may view amazing examples of donated artefacts and photographs in our Online Collections.

Please consider donating items, stories, photographs or videos reflecting your experiences during the Covid-19 Pandemic.  For more information about this collection initiative, visit:  brucemuseum.ca\shareyourstory

If you are interested in donating items to the Museum, please schedule an appointment with the Curatorial Assistant or Archivist by emailing Museum@brucecounty.on.ca or calling 519-797-2080.   Donated materials become the property of the BCM&CC through the completion of a Deed of Gift.  Tax receipts are available upon request at the time of donation.  To receive a tax receipt for donations exceeding $1,000, the donation must be accompanied by an appraisal from an accredited source at the donor’s expense.  

Individuals, organizations, and public agencies may contribute materials to the Research Centre.  The BCM&CC welcomes donations of books, photographs, and other records related to marine history and underwater archaeology across Ontario. 

For large donations, the BCM&CC may require an inventory of items, with enough detail to: 

• demonstrate the relevance of the items to Ontario marine history, and  
• enable the identification of duplication within the Collection.   

When reviewing a potential donation, other factors that may be discussed include:  

• Legal ownership 
• Donor restrictions 
• Resources to properly store and care for an item 

Donated materials become the property of the BCM&CC through the completion of a Deed of Gift.   

Please schedule an appointment with the Archivist, Deb Sturdevant, by emailing archives@brucecounty.on.ca or calling 226-909-2426.    

Tax receipts are available upon request at the time of donation.  To receive a tax receipt for donations exceeding $1,000, the donation must be accompanied by an appraisal from an accredited source at the donor’s expense.